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Library staff are here to help you in person, by email, over live video chat, and live online 24/7. We can help you with everything from understanding Library services to finding everything you need for your assignments quickly and efficiently, and evaluating the reliability of information sources to referencing. Here’s a quick overview of all the ways you can get in touch and how we can help you succeed.
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Finding the right information to answer your assignments can make the difference between success and failure, and finding what you need quickly and efficiently can save you time and avoidable stress. The Library website makes finding everything you need simple, bringing together all the best sources of quality academic information for your subject. Here’s a quick guide to your Library subject page and other places to get started finding the best information available.
Popping up to help you with APA (7th ed.) referencing!
Our friendly library staff will be offering personalised introductions to the APA (7th ed.) referencing style. Learn the tips and tricks that make referencing so much faster and simpler. Find us in the Library Atrium from 1-3 pm Monday-Friday between 24 March and 4 April.
Working towards a truly accessible library for all
We want everyone to feel welcome and enjoy everything the Library has to offer. We believe cognitive, sensory, mobility, and other differences should not be a barrier to getting the most from your Library, and so offer additional services we hope will remove any barriers to your learning.
VLeBooks
The VLeBooks platform will be unavailable next Saturday night, between 10 pm on Saturday 25 January and 4 am on Sunday 26 January while the supplier carries out essential maintenance on the platform. You won’t be able to access any …
Taylor & Francis launch new ebook reader
Taylor & Francis eBooks now come with a redesigned eReader available from Taylorfrancis.com offering a redeveloped, simpler, seamless and inclusive reading experience. Available now for ebook chapters and downloads, and replacing the old ereader for reading entire ebooks online from 16 February, the new ebook reader supports the more accessible and feature rich ePub format as well as sporting a more intuitive interface.
Epub ebooks are coming… soon
A lot of lecturers and librarians then asked what was going to happen to all the links pointing to specific chapters/pages of these ebooks, because most reading lists rely on deep linking to work. EBSCO thought about this briefly, then came back to reassure everyone that they are going to make sure all these deep links continue to work after the change. This has meant that the introduction of the epub format ebooks has been delayed by a few weeks.
Logging into British Pharmacopoeia (January 2025 update)
The British Pharmacopoeia online has been updated and now uses the familiar institutional login process. Here’s a walkthrough of how to log into the new system: Finding the British Pharmacopoeia Search for “British Pharmacopoeia” in the Discovery Service or Library …
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Ebook Central ebooks are being enhanced in late January
Come late late January, Ebook Central will be moving from using pdf to epub format ebooks. This will make these ebooks easier to read and navigate, display better on more devices, and allow publishers to build interactive audio and video into their devices.
